Quotes About Teaching

Spike Lee's School Daze and Sidney Poitier's To Sir with Love

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

it is a warning to those who would be warned and a lesson to those who would learn.

I have given a version of that first lecture I saw, during which I opened the casing of my own arm and directed my students' attention to the rods that contracted and extended when I wiggled my fingers.

Moseby explained to Jijingi how each sound a person spoke could be indicated with a different mark on the paper. The marks were arranged in rows like plants in a field; you looked at the marks as if you were walking down a row, made the sound each mark indicated, and you would find yourself speaking what the original person had said. Moseby showed him how to make each of the different marks on a sheet of paper, using a tiny wooden rod that had a core of soot.

Based on our experience with human minds, it takes at least twenty years of steady effort to produce a useful person, and I see no reason that teaching an artificial being would go any faster.

she has to get on with the job in front of her now: teaching him, as best she can, the business of living.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved from your house now hold in the dusty dry fists of their roots green knives and forks as if waiting for dinner, as if spring were a feast. I thank you for that. Were it not for the way you taught me to look at the world, to see the life at play in everything, I would have to be lonely forever.

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

It is our task to faithfully teach our children the ways of God.

The central focus of childrearing is to bring children to a sober assessment of themselves as sinners.

you may never use your children to promote your convictions. The purpose of discipline is not evangelism. The purpose of discipline is to shepherd your children.

You may not direct your children for your own agenda or convenience. You must direct your children on God's behalf for their good.

please someone else.

Remember, God is not only concerned with the "what" of parenting, he is concerned with the "how.

God's Word must inform not only our goals, but also our methods.

Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God's behalf to provide direction for your children. Directors are in charge. It involves knowing and helping them to understand God's standard for children's behavior. It means teaching them that they are sinners by nature. It includes pointing them to the mercy and grace of God shown in Christ's life and death for sinners.

A parent who is respectful to his children and teaches them with dignity and respect will be respected by his children.

Your heart's desire in every phase of childrearing is to see your children internalize the gospel.

Don't talk to your children about that which you have spoken little with God.

If authority best describes the parent's relationship to the child, the best description of the activity of the parent to the child is shepherding.

Teach your children that ungodly behavior begins with ungodly attitudes of heart, but godly behavior begins with godly attitudes of heart. Below

Pleasant words grease the wheels of instruction.